Windows Phone App Review: Next Browser

Next Browser for Windows Phone

If y'all're looking for an alternative to Internet Explorer you may want to take a look at Next Browser. It is a fast, feature rich alternative that makes a prissy first impression. Only does that beginning impression fade whatever? For the most function, no. But there is i thing that holds a very nice browser dorsum.

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Next Browser Page View

When yous first launch Next Browser, a short tutorial will launch. It'due south a decent tutorial merely a little on the cursory side. You can always revisit the tutorial through Next Browser's Extra's Menu.

Next Browser is well laid out with your URL field at the bottom of the screen. Yous have a back button (no forward) that sits to the left and a "+" button to add together browser tabs to the correct of the URL field. Just above the URL field is a three dot menu that pulls up controls to pull the browser upwardly full screen, refresh the screen, access the extras menu, and lock/unlock the orientation.

The extras menu will pull up the Actions Folio that allows yous to:

Share a web page
Pin the current browser tab to the Start Screen
View your browser history
Access options
Rate and review Next Browser
View the alter log
View the tutorial
View the about screens

You'll also find your Bookmarks listed to the right of the Actions Page. Options for Next Browser covers display options, a few navigation options and your default home page and search provider.

Side by side Browser supports tabs (simply tap the plus sign next to the URL field) and to navigate from web folio to web page on the tabs you have two options. First, you tin can swipe downward on the screen to run into a tile display of all the available tabs. The other choice (and you'll need to flip the switch in the options menu) is to side swipe to motion from tab to tab. Either pick works but yous demand to make sure you make long swipes to trigger things. Also short of a swipe won't exercise anything.

Next Browser Actions and Bookmarks

The Bookmark Page will listing all your bookmarked pages in tile view. The only style to add a bookmark is from this page. By default, when y'all hit the "add together new bookmark" push information technology will paste the electric current URL into the add together bookmark field. Tap on a tile to pull upwardly your options for that particular bookmark. Yous can open the link, open up the link in a new tab, open up the link in Internet Explorer, or delete the bookmark.

Every bit far equally speed is concerned, Next Browser is rather squeamish. The full version of WPCentral.com loaded in nearly six seconds. Comparatively, Internet Explorer took simply shy of nine seconds to load the same folio. Granted data connection speeds will influence these speeds but in full general, Next Browser moves along nicely.

The folio view is touch zoomable and support is present for vertical and horizontal view. For those who don't want the view orientation to change, just hitting the 3 dot card and lock things. Keep in mind, the lock keeps the view at the current orientation. So if you tap the lock button while in horizontal view, Next Browser will stay in that orientation.

All in all, I liked Next Browser just the ane thing that spoiled the experience was stability. Next Browser crashed when switching tabs, when loading pages, when accessing the actress bill of fare and when moving from the actions page to the bookmarks page in the extra menu. When Next Browser was up and running, it is a very impressive browser alternative. Unfortunately, the stability issues really places a damper on the experience.

There is a gratis, advertising supported version (the trial version) available for you to try things out before you lot purchase. The ad gratuitous version is currently running $.99 (regularly 2 bucks) through today. You can detect Next Browser hither at the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

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